Staying Connected At 3 Billion Miles Is Not Easy
Credit: NASA
New Horizons will maintain radio silence when it flies through the Pluto system, but more than half of the huge antennas operated by the Deep Space Network (DSN) will be listening. The probe’s seven instruments are fixed. As the spacecraft slews through a closely timed series of maneuvers to point...
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